1If I speak in the tongues13:1 Or languages of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Ƙauna
1In ina iya yin magana da harsunan13.1 Ko kuwa yarurruka mutane, da na mala’iku, amma ba ni da ƙauna, na zama kamar kuge mai yawan ƙara, ko kuma ƙararrawa mai amo kawai. 2In ina da baiwar annabci, ina kuma iya fahimtar dukan asirai da dukan ilimi, in kuma ina da bangaskiyar da zan iya kawar da manyan duwatsu, amma ba ni da ƙauna, ni ba kome ba ne. 3In na ba wa matalauta dukan abin da nake da shi, na kuma miƙa jikina a ƙone, amma ba ni da ƙauna, ban yi riban kome ba.
4Ƙauna tana da haƙuri, ƙauna tana da kirki. Ba ta kishi, ba ta burga, ba ta da girman kai. 5Ba ta rashin ladabi, ba ta sonkai, ba ta da saurin fushi, ba ta riƙe mutum a zuciya. 6Ƙauna ba ta jin daɗin mugunta, sai dai ta ji daɗin gaskiya. 7Tana kāriya kullum, tana amincewa kullum, tana bege kullum, tana jimrewa kullum.
8Ƙauna ba ta ƙarewa. Amma in akwai annabci zai shuɗe, harsuna su ɓace, ilimi kuma zai ƙare. 9Gama saninmu ba cikakke ba ne, annabcinmu kuma ba cikakke ba ne. 10Sai dai sa’ad da cikakken ya zo, sai wanda ba cikakke yă shuɗe. 11Sa’ad da nake yaro, na yi magana kamar yaro, na yi tunani kamar yaro, na yanke shawara kamar yaro. Da na isa mutum kuwa, sai na bar halin yarantakata. 12Yanzu kam muna ganin abubuwa kamar a madubi sai dai ba sosai ba, amma a ranan nan za mu gani fuska da fuska. Yanzu kam sanina ba cikakke ba ne, amma a ranan nan zan kasance da cikakken sani, kamar dai yadda Allah ya san ni a yanzu.
13Yanzu kam abubuwan nan uku sun tabbata, bangaskiya, bege, da kuma ƙauna. Sai dai mafi girma a cikinsu ita ce ƙauna.
